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The Circle

A woman lands a dream job at a powerful tech company called the Circle, only to uncover a nefarious agenda that will affect the lives of her friends, family and that of humanity.

Review:

This movie confused the heck out of me, particularly Emma Watson’s character. I don’t understand how someone who obviously valued her privacy so much, with her lonesome kayaking and small circle of friends, could vouch for The Circle’s ideas and even promote them. Every time I thought she was having second thoughts she showed she was actually buying into all that stuff. That made the events towards the end feel anti-climatic, as there was no actual progression.

It saddens me to see such a great actress as Emma Watson in a role like this. I guess she did a terrific job with what she was thrown. Tom Hanks was superb as usual. Ty and Annie’s characters were the only ones that felt real in the middle of all those hollow-minded, social media obsessed people so they were okay as well, though fleeting. Most of all, it was quite a mess and I could not relate because no one seemed to see what was obvious to me – the question of invasion of privacy and why that would be bad – not even the main character!

The Circle succeeds in making us think what if in a very bumpy ride where not everything needed to be there and certainly not in the way it was presented.
Even when things start to get interesting and we begin to grasp the immensity of the consequences of what is being done, the conclusion is incredibly rushed and there is no proper resolution.

I had been looking forward to this quite a lot but ultimately left the theatre room disappointed. Still, with food for thought, which is not so bad.